Texas
Audiocast: Thin Clients – State Virtual Networks
Pictured above: Angela Clark, Harris County Department of Education A new book review by the FreeSoftwareMagazine about David Richards’ Linux Thin Client Networks Design and Deployment. The book reminded me about my district’s efforts at exploring possible solutions for a Dropout Prevention and Recovery Academy lab for online courses aimed at high school students. Right-click [...]
Critical Texas Educator Info
TEA’s presentation has some VERY important expectations that your Texas school district needs to consider. My notes–including audio recordings– are available online here. I’ll have to come back and listen some more to get action items, but if you’re in Texas education, these are presentations you need to listen to, or skim the info on [...]
Audiocast: Jott-Milk-Google
At the recent TEC-SIG 2008 Spring meeting, Sandra Hines (Burleson ISD’s Director of Instructional Technology) shared a personal organization (work-related) tip over lunch that caught my attention. Listen to this short audiocast I recorded with Sandra. Listen to a Chat with Sandra Hines Relevant Links: Jott.com Remember the Milk iGoogle.com News z: mguhlin@gmail.com (Miguel Guhlin [...]
Updates from TEC-SIG Spring 2008 Meeting
MORNING: The highlight of the morning was the highlight was George Saltsman presentation on Mobile Learning initiative at Abilene Christian University. While a lot of the information on the slides he shared were things those of us in the edublogosphere have seen before–such as the Did You Know? video, Horizon report statistics–his running account–and responding [...]
ERCOT blames inaccurate wind predictions for February emergency event
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) recently released its Operations Report to explain why it was forced to cut electric supply to interruptible customers on February 26, 2008. The emergency event was caused largely by the convergence of the normal rapid load growth that occurs around 6:00 p.m. and a simultaneous unexpected and sudden drop [...]